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Predicting the peculiar

Using knowledge of their evolutionary origin, an automated platform has been developed to provide accurate de novo structural predictions of products from trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases.

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Fig. 1: Automated structure prediction of a trans-AT PKS product using the TransATor platform.

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Jenner, M. Predicting the peculiar. Nat Chem Biol 15, 761–763 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-019-0324-4

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